Update:  I posted Lauren’s paperclip jewelry a while back and now more of her work is available at the Creatures of Comfort site.  I really love her designs.

1. Emma Dear  2. My Vintage Addiction 3. Portuguese Vintage 4. Ingram Cecil Vintage

So I don’t know about you, but I really hate it when I go into Urban Outfitters or somewhere like that and think.. “Wow… they totally have me pegged.”  Here are some of the many things that I was drooling over.

So sometime last month, my husband and I were driving down our street and we saw two guys painting over this graffiti’d truck.  We could tell the murals were going to be good.  It was there today, finished and looking even better than I thought.

On all 3 sides!  I just had to take some snapshots before some cretin graffiti’d on it again.

If I had some extra moolah right now,  I’d seriously consider buying these two gems for our house.

Cut into the cucumber from the CSA I mentioned a few posts back and half of it was hollow!  It made me smile.

I love this photo which I can only assume was shot by Mr. Newton while Lynch was making Blue Velvet in 1986.

A very subdued collection for Viktor & Rolf, who are typically known for their avant garde fashions.  I love it.

The costumes in this video are amazing. This was directed by the Glue Society, and the track itself was produced on a Nintendo DSi!

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I love the CSA (Community Shared Agriculture) movement in LA.   Californians are a little late to the game, as I know places in other parts of the world have been doing this for some time, but they are springing up all over the place now.  Local farms contribute different things, so that the boxes are quite varied, and the produce is entirely seasonal.  Our friends Craig and Kenny let us pick up (and eat) their box while they were out of town this weekend.  It was full of peaches, carrots, tomatoes, corn, chilis, potatoes, cabbage, a watermelon, a head of lettuce, and more- and that was just the “small” box!  Crazy.  I am now looking for inventive recipes to use so that I don’t waste any of these farm-fresh goodies.  For you LA locals, this is the co-op that my friends use.  I couldn’t resist taking a photo.